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Reduced-system analysis of the effects of serotonin on a molluscan burster neuron

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The mathematical model described in Bertram (1993) is used to carry out a detailed examination of the manner in which the neurotransmitter serotonin modifies the voltage waveform generated endogenously by burster neuron R15 of Aplysia. This analysis makes use of a reduced system of equations, taking advantage of the slow rate of change of a pair of system variables relative to the others. Such analysis also yields information concerning the sensitivity of the neuron to brief synaptic perturbations.

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  1. Richard Bertram

    Present address: Mathematical Research Branch, NIDDK, NIH, 20892, Bethesda, MD, USA

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

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Bertram, R. Reduced-system analysis of the effects of serotonin on a molluscan burster neuron. Biol. Cybern. 70, 359–368 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00200333

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